Authors

Edgar Morin:
"Edgar Morin is one of the most moving sociological thinkers of our time, a broad thematic profile, which enriches the cognitive sociology of the results of philosophy, anthropology and biology.
Morin in the book of ethics based on the fact that the world is in the current crisis of ethics and asks: "'Is it possible to reject the barbarity and that people truly civilize? Will you be able to continue in hominisation humanization? '"Morin replied:"' Nothing is certain, including the worst. "" The Book of Ethics aimed at questioning the current state of the sustainable future of man and mankind "


George Santayana:
Spanish-American philosopher and writer
birth
16th December 1863rd
Madrid, Spain
death
26th September 1952nd
Rome, Italy



Arthur Schopenhauer:
Arthur Schopenhauer (Gdansk, February 22, 1788th - N Frankfurt / M, 21 September 1860.), German philosopher, author of The World as Will and Representation, considered the founder of the metaphysical pessimism.
Arthur Schopenhauer was born in 1788th in a wealthy merchant family.
He was educated in his native Gdansk and Hamburg, and has taken numerous study tours: from 1797th the 1799th resided in France, Le Havre, and the 1803rd and 1804th resided in the Netherlands, Switzerland, Austria, and France and England.



Epicurus:
Epicurus (Greek Ἐπίκουρος, Epikouros, Samos, 341st BC. BC. - Athens, 270 BC. BC.), Was a philosopher of the Hellenistic-Roman period. Science is beginning to deal with fourteen years. He wrote some 300 scientific papers. His works are preserved in its entirety. On it was written most of his followers from Rome: Titus Lucretius Kar. His famous work is "On the Nature of Things". Place where Epicurus taught was called "Epicurean garden."


Ludwig Andreas Feuerbach:
Ludwig Andreas Feuerbach (July 28, 1804 - September 13, 1872) was a German philosopher, anthropologist, biologist and critic of religion. It is considered the intellectual father of modern atheistic humanism, atheism also called anthropological. For him immortality is a human creation and is the basic germ of the anthropology of religion.1

The critical materialism of Feuerbach have a profound effect on both the thinking of Max Stirner (1806-1856) and Bakunin (1814-1876) as in the theories of Marx (1818-1883) and Engels (1820-1895) and generally throughout the so-called historical materialism.



Anna Comnenus:
Anna Comnenus (Greek Άννα Κομνηνή; 1083 to 1153) was a Byzantine princess and historian.

The oldest daughter of Alexius I Comnenus was born in Constantinople 1083rd year. She received higher education in the Byzantine capital, studying the Greek classics, history, geography, mythology, and even philosophy.

She was married to Nićifora Vrijenija, the son of a former strategist Drack subjects who wished to seize the imperial throne. After the death of her father Alexius, Anna Comnenus has teamed up with him 1118th in an attempt to overthrow John II Comnenus, the legitimate heir of Emperor Alexius. After a failed attempt to overthrow the court, Anna Comnenus returned with his mother, Empress Irina from Constantinople and went to a monastery, where he became a nun.


William Shakespeare:
William Shakespeare (Stratford on Avon, England, April 23, 1564. - Stratford on Avon, May 3, 1616.), English writer, actor and theater director, is generally considered the greatest writer the English language and the world's most famous and most often performed playwright. His works were translated into all languages ​​of the world.


Boris Leonidovich Pasternak:
Boris Leonidovich Pasternak (Russian: "Boris Leonidovich Pasternak," Moscow, February 10, 1890th - Predelkino near Moscow, May 30, 1960.) Was a Russian poet, writer and Nobel laureate.

He worked as a poet, novelist, translator and novelist. He grew up in an intellectual environment, he studied philosophy in Moscow and Marburg. In his youth he was a futurist. His poetry is largely apolitical themes, literary and intellectual. She also writes poems with the theme of the first and second Russian revolution. In the novel "Doctor Zhivago" relied on the tradition of 19th novel century and is built on the plot work on the fate of several families, covering an area of ​​Western Siberia to the Russian border, with Moscow in the center, describing two of the Russian Revolution and ending with an epilogue to the Second World War. In the USSR in his novel called "anti-Soviet," while he was in the West 1958th awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, which has not received.



Michel de Montaigne:
Michel de Montaigne (Chateau de Montaigne, February 28, 1533rd - Chateau de Montaigne, 13 September 1592nd), French writer, essayist, most in history.

Completing the philosophy of law at Bordeaux and Toulouse, he worked in various legal services in Perigueux first and then to Bordeaux, where in 1558. met Etienne de La Boetiea, poets and Libertarian thinker, who directed him in Stoic philosophy with which it is connected by a deep friendship. Boethius' De La's early death, by his own admission, represented the biggest blow to Montaigne, which resulted in the writer's decision to never enter into such a deep emotional connection.



William Penn Adair "Will" Rogers:
William Penn Adair "Will" Rogers (4.11. 1879 - 15.8. 1935) was an American cowboy, comedian, humorist, social commentator, vaudeville performer and actor Cherokee descent. He is also known as the father of U.S. Congressman and war hero Will Rogers Junior.

He is also known as a "favorite son of Oklahoma," [1] Rogers was born into a prominent family in the Indian Territory, where in childhood he learned to ride horses and throw the lasso, and in a way that was because of his skills even three times as listed in the Guinness Book of World records. Toured the world three times, made ​​71 film (50 silent and 21 sound), [2] wrote over 4,000 newspaper columns, [3] and became one of the most celebrated personalities of his time.



  
Thomas Alva Edison:
Thomas Alva Edison (Thomas Alva Edison) 1847-1931 by the American physicist and prolific inventor.
Edison

Edison has received almost no formal education, having been expelled from school as an abortive, and taught by his mother. With 14 years but was entrepreneur and worked 14 hours a day, as a newsboy and seller of food on the railway, earning $ 14 a week. He quickly arranged a laboratory in an abandoned wagon, a printing press and newspapers for their Grand Trunk Herald, which I mostly wrote, in the 16th he became a telegrapher and inventor began his career (during the Civil War), and invented and patented electrical appliance for logging of votes in elections.



Elizabeth Bibesco:
Princess Elizabeth Bibesco, born Elizabeth Charlotte Lucy Asquith (1897-1945), is a poet and writer English, wife of Prince Antoine Bibesco, Proust's friend and first cousin of the Countess Anna de Noailles. It published under the name of Elizabeth Bibesco.




Helen Adams Keller:
Helen Adams Keller (Tuscumbia, Alabama, USA, June 27, 1880th - Easton, Connecticut, June 1, 1968.), American writer and activist.

She was born in the officer's family which was great about the Confederate Army during the American Civil War. Father Arthur H. Keller was a former officer of the Southern army, and mother Kate Adams Keller was a species of the famous Southern generals Robert E. Lee.

From childhood she was blind and deaf. After a long process was able to learn to communicate with others, and to finish school. She learned several foreign languages​​, and learning has shown a remarkable sense of literary and scientific work. Doctorate in philosophy at Radcliffe defended Colledgeu.







Franklin Delano Roosevelt:
Franklin Delano Roosevelt (January 30th 1882nd-12th April 1945.), American statesman and politician, president of the United States elected four times consecutively.

Raised in a prominent aristocratic New York family, Roosevelt got involved in politics since 1909. as supporters of the Democratic Party. During the First World War are emphasized in the position of Assistant Minister for the Navy.

The 1921st was stricken with polio, a disease for which he could not walk, but whose existence is, like love affair with the secretary Lucy Mercer, remained a secret until the end of his life. Thanks to the 1928. elected governor of New York. In 1932. was elected president in the midst of the Great Depression. His first term was marked by efforts to recover the national economy, in which he employed a number of reforms inspired by the ideas of British economist John Maynard Keynes. This policy, known as the New Deal, began to show results only with the outbreak of World War II.



Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill:
Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill (Oxfordshire, November 30, 1874th - London, January 24, 1965.) - British politician, statesman, writer and imperialist fighter best known as Prime Minister of Great Britain during World War II. He won in 1953. Nobel prize for literature through books in which he described the modern English and world history. Sir Winston Churchill 2002nd was elected for greatest Briton in history in the 100 Greatest Britons poll.


Christopher D'Olier Reeve:
Christopher D'Olier Reeve (New York, United States of September 25, 1952 - Mount Kisco, New York, New York City, October 10, 2004.) Is an American actor, director and screenwriter

He is best known for starring in the eponymous superhero Superman series of films. In 1995, after falling from his horse became tetraplegik and remained chained to a wheelchair for life.



Confucius:
Confucius, Confucius, or Kung Fu Tse (Chinese: 孔夫子, literally meaning: Master Kung, Latin: Confucius, September 28, 551st BC. BC. - March 4, 479th pr. Kr.) Is a Chinese philosopher and social reformer whose the teaching was and is highly significant across East Asia. He was one of the first private teacher in Chinese history. Most significant is its ethical value system, which was the foundation of China's sovereignty and social thought throughout the feudal period. With the development of feudalism during the Han dynasty in China's philosophy is instrumentalized in order to strengthen the imperial power.




Robert Francis Kennedy:
Robert Francis Kennedy (Brookline, Massachusetts, November 20, 1925th - Los Angeles, California, June 5, 1968.), American politician and lawyer.

He was a supporter of the Democratic Party, the brother of President John F. Kennedy, in whose administration he was minister of justice and held that position until 1964. year. That same year he was elected to the Senate as a representative of the State of New York. He belonged to the liberal wing of the Democratic Party. Run for the position of President of the United States and the ongoing campaign killed in political assassination.




Aristotle:He was a disciple of Plato, and his metaphysical dualism is rejected, claiming that in reality there are only individual things which the intellect abstracts from general concepts. In Athens, he founded his own, the peripatetic philosophical school, which continued to operate after his death.
In his teachings, the highest of all sciences "first philosophy" (later called metaphysics), because the studies being as being, and finds that it has its own variety, which is analogous meaning (being a category: its substance and nine accidents, being as and indeed such a possibility, as being true). An integral part of the highest "first philosophy" is to theology. It examines the divine side, or "mind", which was first fixed and unmoved mover of the overall reality. Explaining the motion and the formation of such substances do not go out nebića into being, but from things such as being able in reality, Aristotle provides one of the most important answer to the central problem of Greek philosophy. This transition allows the metaphysical principles of matter (the possibility of some things) and form (the achievement of these options), which in the sensible world can not exist separately, but only together constitute a specific substance. The motion is therefore going to be will become really and truly as possible, with no end, which is why the world is eternal. But to explain it fully, we need more formative and final cause, as well as "first cause", which I was immobile and therefore only one. He is a pure form and pure reality (understood as pure opinion because the opinion of the highest form of existence), ie, the most perfect being, namely God. It is the world that he suvječan and uncreated, not interested, nor thought, but it runs the way of final causes. The man has a share in the divine reality in his mind, which is therefore immortal. But Aristotle does not explain enough how it relates to the mind, which he called active, the other parts of the human soul (which is understood as a form of the body) and the divine NuSa.







Mahatma Gandhi:
Indian nation leaders who fought for independence through nonviolent revolution. Gandhi, known as Mahatma Gandhi, was born in a Hindu family in Porbandar in the present state of Gujarat on 2 listopada 1869th year. He studied law at the University of London. Once in 1891. graduated in law (1889th to 1891st) Gandhi returned to India and tried to work in the profession, but they had no success. Two years later an Indian firm that had business relations with South Africa retained him as legal adviser in its office in Durban.



Søren Aabye Kierkegaard:
Søren Aabye Kierkegaard (Copenhagen, May 5, 1813. - Copenhagen, November 11, 1855th), Danish philosopher, theologian and writer.
Born into a wealthy family in his native city has lived almost his entire short life, except for a short stay in Germany. He lived a reclusive life, devoting herself to writing. Lasting and profound impression on him, have left the events of his inner life, especially his love for Regina Olsen and his betrothal to her termination.







Elbert Green Hubbard:
Elbert Green Hubbard (June 19, 1856 in Bloomington, McLean County, Illinois; † 7 May 1915 at the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Ireland) was an American novelist, essayist, philosopher and publisher. He was the founder of the Roycroft Movement, an American branch of the coming from the UK Arts and Crafts Movement.



Theodor Seuss Geisel:
Theodor Seuss Geisel (born March 2, 1904 in Springfield, Massachusetts, † 24 September 1991 in La Jolla, California), known as Dr. Seuss, was an American children's book author and cartoonist, best known in Europe as the inventor of the christmas-hating Grinch. Geisel also wrote under the pseudonyms Theo LeSieg and Rosetta Stone.






Ralph Waldo Emerson:
Ralph Waldo Emerson (Boston, May 25, 1803. - Concord, April 27, 1882.), American philosopher, essayist and poet.

According to his ideas and influence the central figure of American intellectual life in the 19th century. His lecture entitled "The American Scholar" was called "intellectual Declaration of Independence." He edited the newspaper The Deal. He believed that the poet's role is to help us see what permanent in what is changeable and transitory. He published the book "Prominent People" and "England features", this collection of essays, "Implementation of Life," "Society and the solitude," "Nature" and "Essays."




Israel Zangwill:
Israel Zangwill, born in London January 21, 1864 and died in Midhurst (West Sussex) on 1 August 1926, is a British writer, novelist, essayist, playwright, journalist and theoretician of Zionism. Member of the World Zionist Organization, he left in 1905 and founded the United Jewish territorialism, which aims to create a Jewish state out of Palestine.




Théophile Gautier:
Théophile Gautier (Tarbes, Département Hautes-Pyrénées, 31 August 1811th - Neuilly-sur-Seine near Paris, 23 October 1872nd), French poet, novelist and critic.

He studied painting. Initially an enthusiastic supporter of romanticism, and later joined the excesses of romantic poetry and asks impresonalnu and passionless. Balance Masters, skulputre and landscapes are often the source of his inspiration. As a critic of the impressionist descriptive without going into the analysis, and has published over 2000 articles'. I predecessor Baudelaire and Parnassian and holder of the doctrine of l'art pour l'art. According to him the purpose of art is to find and create beauty, a poet must be indifferent to the political, social and moral problems.



Sam Keen:
Sam Keen is an author, teacher and American philosopher, known for exploring questions about love, life, religion, and the problem of man in contemporary society. Also co-produced an award-winning documentary for the Public Broadcasting Service and was addressed in a television special by Bill Moyers (Your Mythic Journey with Sam Keen) in early 1990. Worked as editor of Psychology Today for 20 years.

Keen is a graduate in philosophy and theology at the universities of Princeton and Harvard and taught at several institutions before becoming an independent thinker.











































Jean-Christophe:
Jean-Christophe is a character from the world of Winnie the Pooh created by AA Milne. It's a little boy, who has the fluff Winnie and his friends. With them, he saw many wonderful adventures in the Hundred Acre Wood. He lives in a beautiful house deep in the forest.


Thomas S. Szasz:
Thomas S. Szasz (pronounced "Sasse"), born April 15, 1920 in Budapest, Hungary, is a psychiatrist and professor emeritus of psychiatry at the University of New York at Syracuse. It is a protest and criticism of the moral and scientific foundations of psychiatry.

His books are representative of his line of thought and its political struggle.

     The Myth of Mental Illness
     The Manufacture of Madness: A Comparative Study of the Inquisition and the Mental Health Movement.

His struggle libertarian refers to medicine in particular and, in general, the privacy of the contractual relationship of any kind between major individuals. The best-known and most common is related to sexual orientations who switched from normal to pathological. In Freud's time was "sexual abuse" all that was not involved in biological reproduction rights in Vienna.




Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson:
Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson (Edinburgh, Scotland, November 13, 1850 - Vailima, near Apia, Samoa, December 3, 1894) was a novelist, poet and essayist Scot. Stevenson, who suffered from tuberculosis, came to meet only 44 years, but his legacy is a vast work that includes travel reports, and historical adventure novels and poetry and essays. He is best known as the author of some of the fantastic stories of adventures and children's literature classic, Treasure Island, the historical novel The Black Arrow and the popular horror novel The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde on the theme of the phenomena of split personality, and can be read as a novel of psychological horror. Several of his novels are still very famous and some of them have been repeatedly made ​​into films in the twentieth century, partly adapted for children. It was also important to his essays, short but decisive as regards the structure of the modern novel of adventure. It was very appreciated in his time and remained so after his death. Continued in authors like Joseph Conrad, Graham Greene, G. K. Chesterton, H. G. Wells, and the Argentine Bioy Casares and Jorge Luis Borges.


Hippocrates:
Hippocrates with hair (about 460th BC. BC. - 380th pr. Kr.) Was a famous ancient Greek physician. It is usually considered one of the most prominent personalities of medicine all the time. He belonged to the school of Asclepiades the Greek island of Kos. The acts attributed to him (Corpus hippocraticum or "Hippocratic writings") separating the science of magic and superstition, collected and critically also up experience of Egyptian and Greek physicians, and is therefore considered the father of scientific medicine.

Hippocrates believed that the development of each disease are critical days. It is well described clinical symptoms of certain diseases (eg epilepsy, eclampsia, malaria, epidemic mumps) and certain clinical syndromes (the dying person, hippocratica facies).

Hippocrates put forward the hypothesis that mental disorders result diseased brain, and that the "crazy man" really sick man. The Hippocratic school described in detail the two hemispheres of the brain, meningitis, unilateral brain syndrome, inflammation and brain tumor, etc. On the basis of symptoms Hippocrates did not put a diagnosis rather than prognosis. In addition to medication in the treatment of mental illness (at that time used various herbal preparations, opiates, cannabis, rauvolfija and other substances have been found empirically) preporučavao the rest, diet, gymnastics, and as the most appropriate remedy - work.



Alexander Chalmers:
Alexander Chalmers, born March 29, 1759 in Aberdeen and died December 29, 1834, a member of the Royal Society of London, is a Scottish writer and journalist.

Having trained as a doctor, Chalmers abandoned the practice of medicine for journalism. There was a time was editor of the Morning Herald (in), then the Public Ledger after the death of Hugh Kelly in 1777.





Blaise Pascal:
Blaise Pascal (Clermont-Ferrand, June 19, 1623rd - Paris, August 19, 1662nd), French philosopher, mathematician and physicist

Work "provinicijalu Letters," which attacks Jesuit duplicity and to court the public puts their morale, contributed to the abolition of the Jesuit order. In a series of works emphasizes that only in the sense of disappearing boundaries between doubt and security, which tortured the rational man. His extraordinary mathematical talent evident in his 16th year, when he wrote his work on čunosječnicama, in which he posed his theorem šesterovrhu (Pascal theorem). He had constructed a machine to count, I found the general rule of divisibility of integers. As a physicist investigating the pressure of gases and liquids. He found that the air pressure depends on temperature and moisture, thus laying the foundations of meteorology.
Sophia Loren:
Sophia Loren was born in Rome as a child Richard Scicolonea engineers and piano teacher, Romilda Villani, who herself wanted to become an actress. She grew up in poor conditions in the city of Pozzuoli near Naples while she took second World War II. Small apartment she shared with her sister Mary, his parents, grandfather, grandmother, uncles and aunts - later said that she was living in poverty did a tougher person. As a child was considered ugly girl, but later grew into a beauty. Her sister married a Roman Mussolini, son of Benito Mussolini. Sophia was already 15 years went to look for film roles in Rome, with a salary from a job as a model for the illustrated romantic stories supported herself by her family.


Buddha:
Buddha (Buddha sanskrt. awakened, enlightened) spiritual and religious name of Indian royalty and the founder of Buddhism, Siddhartha Gautama (the one who has achieved his goal). Siddhartha Gautama was born around the 560th The pr. Christ in Kapilavastuu, the slope of the Himalayas. He died about the 480th PR. Kusinari in Christ. [1] He disregarded what he is wealth and family, surrendered to religious asceticism and meditation, achieved enlightenment after seven years in the famous "sermon of Benares," published his teachings. While touring the country preaching and gained a lot of students. He taught equality between men and stale against Brahmin caste. For him life is pain that arises from the desire, it is necessary to suppress desire, because it can free a man and suffering. As the highest goal of life, the Buddha said Nirvana (extinction), which achieves the ultimate goal of life: the absence of all desire and the termination of samsara in the highest state of perfection.


Albert Schweitzer:
Albert Schweitzer (Kaysersberg, January 14, 1875th - Lambarene (Gabon), 4 September 1965.), Elzaški-German physician, a Protestant theologian, philosopher and musician

He studied theology, philosophy in Strasbourg, Paris and Berlin. He was a Protestant vicar and assistant professor at the Theological Faculty of Protestantism in Strasbourg. At the same time the concert began as a musical activity at the time groundbreaking monograph on Johann Sebastian Bach and discussion on the construction of the organ.

He also studied medicine, and as a missionary doctor devoted to charitable work in French Equatorial Africa. Since 1913. to 1917. was developed in the tropical Lambareneu hospital with dispensary for leprosy patients. The intimate collaboration with the black population was treated and control against tropical diseases, they educated, helped, challenged racial prejudice and colonialism. He warned that the ethical value of physician work and gave a model example.

As a music writer contributed a new interpretation of Bach's music and has initiated, in the construction of the organ, so called. Alsatian reform - a movement for the restoration of traditional types of organs.



David Daniel Kaminski:
David Daniel Kaminski known as Danny Kaye (David Daniel Kaminsky engl., Danny Kaye, January 18, 1913 - March 3, 1987.) Was an American stage and film actor, a great comedian, who is engaged in UNICEF, and the agency UN to help children. His best known films are The Miracle of Man, The boy from Brooklyn, Song was born, The Secret Life of Walter Mitija, auditor, and other Crazy feat.


Abraham Lincoln:
Abraham Lincoln (Hodgenville, February 12, 1809th - Washington, DC, April 15, 1865.), The American President and politician

While still a waterman on the Mississippi looked chained blacks to the slave market, vowed that it will rise up against slavery. As a member of Congress (from the 1847th to 1849th) stands out against the introduction of slavery in new territories of the United States. 1854. in a famous speech attacking "Agreement Kansas - Nebraska Bill," which enabled slavery in the northwestern part of the country. That same year participated in the founding of the new Republican Party as its candidate, 6 studenog 1860th was elected president of the United States.

The choice of a prominent opponent of slavery at the head of state was a sign of rebellion for slavery South. By March 1861st seven southern states left the Union and established the Confederate States of America with Jefferson Davis at the helm. In April of that year began a civil war ending in victory for the Union and the liberation of black slaves. Lincoln was elected president and the election in 1864., And was killed a year later assassinated in a theater that is performed on it tends Confederation actor John Wilkes Booth.
 


Richard Strauss:
Richard Strauss (Munich, June 11, 1864th - Garmisch-Partenkirchen, September 8, 1949.), German composer.

He worked as an opera conductor of the court theater in Munich, Weimar and Berlin, and director of the Vienna State Opera. Stylish builds on the direction of the late Romanesque Liszt and Wagner and enters into the development of modern music in the early 20th century.

Initially the focus of his interest programic symphonic poem ("Don Juan", "Death and Transfiguration," "Thus Spake Zarathustra," "Happy Monkey Till Eulenspiegel"), and after the 1900th he composed several operas ("Salome", "Elektra", "Cavalier of the Rose," "Ariadne auf Naxos"). He composed the ballets, symphonies, chamber and vocal works.



Martin Luther:
Martin Luther (Eisleben, November 10, 1483rd - Eisleben, February 18, 1546)., German theologian and religious reformer, founder of the Protestant Reformation.

His religious reformation was deeply influenced the political, economic, educational and linguistic situation in the world making it one of the most important figure in European history. Martin Luther was born on 10 studenog 1483rd year in Eisleben. Elementary and Secondary Education Martin Luther gained in Mansfeld, Magdeburg and Eisenach. In 1,501th at the age of 17, he enrolled at the University of Erfurt. His father, Hans Luther, a native of the peasant family, was a miner in a copper mine in the Area On Mansfeld.




Henry Louis Mencken:

Henry Louis Mencken (September 12, 1880 in Baltimore, Maryland - January 29, 1956, idem), better known under the name H. L. Mencken was a journalist, linguist, satirist, social critic and freethinker, known as the "Sage of Baltimore" or the "American Nietzsche". It is often considered one of the most influential American writers of the twentieth century. At a time in his career, the Americans had designated as their most brilliant mind and unparalleled literary criticism.

Mencken is probably best known today for his book The American Language, a multi-volume study of how English is spoken in the United States, and for his satirical reporting on the Scopes trial, he called the "monkey Trial".
 



Dame Edith Sitwell Louisa:
Dame Edith Sitwell Louisa (7 September 1887 - December 9, 1964) is an English poet and essayist, elder sister of the poet Osbert Sitwell and Sacheverell Sitwell. From 1916 to 1921, she published an annual anthology of contemporary poetry, titled Wheels.

Famously declaimed his own texts using a megaphone to the sound of music of Sir William Walton, Edith Sitwell is also the author of several biographies, including Alexander Pope (1930), and especially a best-seller, The English Eccentrics (1933). One of his works was set to music by Sir Benjamin Britten.

Several artists have performed his portrait painters John Singer Sargent, Pavel Tchelitchev, Roger Fry and Wyndham Lewis, the photographer Cecil Beaton and Mark Gerson.
 


Leon Jean-Jules Combarieu:
Leon Jean-Jules Combarieu is a French musicologist, born in Cahors February 4, 1859 and died in Paris July 7, 1916.
Like his older brother, Abel Combarieu, born in Cahors January 30, 1856, and will become the executive assistant to the President of the Republic Emile Loubet, Julius is the son of Henry Combarieu, printer, and Mary-Louise Salbant, which were married in 1855 in the Quercy. He studied at the Sorbonne, then in Berlin with Philipp Spitta. He was first professor of literature at the Lycee of Cahors. In 1894 he received the title of Doctor of Letters.

In 1901 he founded the journal History and criticism of music that becomes the musical revue in 1904 before merging with the journal of the International Society of Music in 1912.

Between 1904 and 1910, he was professor of music at the College de France.

Combarieu Christophe, author of the Lied (1998) and Bel Canto (1999) (Presses Universitaires de France) is his great-grand-son.
 



Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche:
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (pronounced [nitʃ] or [ni: tʃə]) is a philologist, philosopher and German poet born October 15, 1844 at Röcken, Saxony, and died August 25, 1900 in Weimar, Germany.

Nietzsche's work is essentially a critique of modern Western culture and all its so-called moral values ​​(from the devaluation of the Christian world), political (democracy, egalitarianism), philosophy (Platonism and all forms of metaphysical dualism) and religious (Christianity). This criticism stems from a project to reverse or invalidate the old values ​​(the German term that contains Umwertung Wert, value, suggests rather invalidate or devalue) and to introduce new abandoning the faith, beyond resentment and will to nothingness which dominated the history of Europe under the influence of Christianity in particular with reference to the assertion of an eternal return of life and the overcoming of humanity and the advent of the superman. The presentation of his ideas take on the whole a poetic or aphoristic form.

Little recognized in his lifetime, his influence has been and remains the major continental trend of contemporary philosophy, particularly existentialism and postmodern philosophy, but Nietzsche has in recent years also attracted the interest of analytic philosophers, or English, argue that a naturalistic reading challenging ownership by continental philosophy problématique1 considered.
 


George Bernard Shaw:
George Bernard Shaw (July 26, 1856 in Dublin - November 2, 1950 at Ayot St Lawrence (in)) is an Irish playwright and music critic, essayist, screenwriter, and author of famous plays. Irish acerbic and provocative, pacifist and nonconformist, he won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1925. Born in Dublin in a small family of the Protestant nobility July 26, 1856, George Bernard Shaw acquires a literary and musical scope. At age twenty, he joined his mother in London, separated from her alcoholic father, and is interested in political economy and socialism. Reading Karl Marx is a revelation. Alongside his work as a political activist, he became art critic and music, and drama critic and wrote many essays.

After trying in vain to publish five novels, George Bernard Shaw is interested in the theater from 1892 for which he wrote over fifty plays. He developed a style where his humorous wit, better development, made ​​him an undisputed master of the English theater. In his early plays, very committed but rarely played, George Bernard Shaw tackles social abuses. The play The Hero and the Soldier, produced in 1894 in the United States, marks the beginning of his international fame.
 


Julius Henry Marx:
Julius Henry Marx (October 2, 1890 in New York - August 19, 1977 in Los Angeles), better known by the nickname of Groucho Marx, American comedian was a part of the Marx Brothers. Like his brothers, he started in the trade as small child, he already showed a talent for the theater. His mother Minnie made ​​the commitment, and Gummo in a traveling theater troupe: The Leroy Trio. He learned the arts, comedy, song and dance. But his mother quickly resumed the business in hand to form her own son. They crisscross the country to play on stage and not winning anything. With his brothers, he finally triumphed on Broadway and was subsequently made ​​successful. Soon, he is nicknamed Groucho (which comes from English to grouch meaning grumble) it adopts the stage name. 



Homer Jay Simpson:
Homer Jay Simpson is the main fictional character from the animated television series The Simpsons and father of the eponymous family. He is voiced by Dan Castellaneta in the original version, Philippe Peythieu in the French version and Hubert Gagnon in Quebec. Homer appeared for the first time on television with the rest of the family in the short film Good Night, April 19, 1987. Homer was created by cartoonist Matt Groening while he was waiting in the lobby of the office of James L. Brooks. It appealed to Groening to launch a series of shorts based on Life in Hell, but he decided to create a new set of characters. He named Homer Simpson after his father, Homer Groening. Having been short films for three years, the Simpson family was entitled to his own series on the Fox network from 17 December 1989.



Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky:
Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky (Russian: Игорь Фёдорович Стравинский) (Oranienbaum, Russia, June 17, 1882 - New York, April 6, 1971) is a composer and conductor Russia (naturalized French in 1934, then U.S. in 1945) in modern times, considered one of the most influential composers of the twentieth century.

Stravinsky's work, which spans almost seventy years, is characterized by its wide variety of styles. The composer became famous by creating three ballets he composed the music for Diaghilev's Ballets Russes: The Firebird (1910), Petrushka (1911) and his masterpiece The Rite of Spring (1913) who had a significant impact on the approach to the rhythm of classical music. In the 1920s, his music took a turn neoclassical and renewed with traditional forms (concerto grosso, fugue and symphony). In the 1950s, finally, Stravinsky explored the possibilities of serial music.
 


Joanne Kathleen Rowling:
Joanne Kathleen Rowling, OBE1, LL.D. (Hon.) , born July 31, 1965 in the town of Yate, Gloucestershire, in England, is an English novelist, known under the pseudonym J. K. Rowling. It owes its worldwide reputation in the Harry Potter series, whose volumes translated into at least 65 langues have been sold to over 400 million exemplaires.

Young divorced mother living allowance, she started writing Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone in 19904 and had to wait many years and with a literary agent, Christopher Little, before his book appears in Bloomsbury in 1997. The global success of the six following volumes as well as off-set allowed him to acquire a fortune estimated in 2008 by the Sunday Times to 560 million pounds (about 590 million euros or 825 million USD7) and contribute to many charities struggling against disease and social inequality. It thus becomes a philanthropist recognized by co-founding including the Children's High Level group.
 


Oliver Wendell Holmes:
Oliver Wendell Holmes (August 29, 1809 - October 7, 1894) is a writer, doctor, American essayist and poet of the nineteenth century.

His son, Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. was an influential judges of the Supreme Court of the United States. Oliver Wendell Holmes preached the U.S. crusade for a sterile hand but without much success. Ignaz Semmelweis, Austro-Hungarian doctor had precisely defined the usefulness of routine hand washing and especially during delivery. This measure helped to significantly reduce the mortality rate due to puerperal fever.
 


Francois-Marie Arouet:
Francois-Marie Arouet, Voltaire said, born November 21, 1694 in Paris where he died May 30, 1778, is a writer and philosopher who marked the eighteenth century and occupies a special place in the French collective memory.

Emblematic figure of Enlightenment France, leader of the philosophical party, his name remains attached to his fight against the "Infamous," a name he gives to religious fanaticism, and tolerance and freedom of thought. Deist outside of established religions, the political objective is that of a moderate monarchy and liberal, enlightened by the "philosophers". Committed intellectual in the service of truth and justice, he takes, and only using his immense fame, defending victims of religious intolerance and arbitrariness in cases he has made ​​famous (Calas , Sirven, Chevalier de la Barre, Comte de Lally).
 


John Winston Ono Lennon:
John Winston Ono Lennon MBE (born John Winston Lennon October 9, 1940 in Liverpool, and murdered December 8, 1980 in New York) is a musician, songwriter, guitarist, singer and writer. He is the founder of the Beatles, English music group to global success since its formation in early 1960. Within the Beatles, he formed with Paul McCartney one of the tandems of songwriters the most influential and prolific in rock history, giving birth to more than two hundred songs.

Teenager, influenced by his American idols of rock 'n' roll, he was struck by the wave of rampant skiffle music in Liverpool in 1956 and founded the group Quarrymen, which evolved to become, with Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr , the Beatles. From Please Please Me in 1963, Let It Be in 1970, the Beatles become one of the biggest phenomena in the history of the recording industry, introducing many innovations and musical mixing genres and influences. Lennon plays a central role in this popular success, critical and commercial component much of the group's success. Disagreements between the musicians, especially between Lennon and McCartney, terminate the adventure in 1970.
 



Albert Einstein:
Albert Einstein (born March 14, 1879 in Ulm, Württemberg, and died 18 April 1955 in Princeton, New Jersey) is a theoretical physicist who was successively German and stateless person (1896), Swiss (1901), and finally under the double American nationality Helvetian (1940) 1.

He published his theory of relativity in 1905, and a theory of gravity called general relativity in 1915. It contributes to the development of quantum mechanics and cosmology, and received the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1921 for his explanation of the effect photoélectrique2. His work is especially known for the equation E = mc2, which establishes an equivalence between matter and energy of a system.
 


Albert Camus:
Albert Camus, born November 7, 1913 in Mondovi in the department of Constantine (since 1962 Drean in Willaya El Taref) in Algeria, and died January 4, 1960 at Villeblevin in Burgundy, is a writer, novelist, playwright , French philosopher and essayist. He was also a journalist activist involved in the French Resistance and in the moral struggles of the postwar period.

Camus's work includes plays, novels, short stories, poems and essays in which he develops a humanism based on the awareness of the absurdity of the human condition but also as a response to the revolt the absurd revolt that leads to action and gives meaning to the world and existence, and "then comes the strange joy which helps to live and die" 1.

His criticism of Soviet totalitarianism has earned him the anathemas of the communists and led to the quarrel with Jean-Paul Sartre. It has been awarded to 44 by the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957 and will remain high in the world.
 


Anton Pavlovich Chekhov:
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (Russian: Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, Tanganrog, January 29, 1860th - Badenweiler, Germany, July 15, 1904)., Russian writer. He was born the third of six children merchant Pavel Jegoroviča and Evgeny Morozov Jakovlevne. Since 1876th to 1879. Chekhov attended elementary and high school in Tanganrogu, often visited the theater, published articles and edited the school newspaper. 1876th Chekhov's father was bankrupt and his family moved to Moscow, while Pavlovich remains Tangnrogu. At the time Chekhov wrote his first drama Without a father, which was not found until today. 1879th The Anton P. Chekhov completed high school and went to Moscow, where he studied medicine at Moscow University. During the study published anonymous articles in student magazines, and was soon elected Antoš Čehonte pseudonym under which he writes in magazines Peterburgajska Gazeta, Vremya new, and Oskolki Ruskaja Mysl. Between the 1880th and 1887. wrote another under pseudonyms: Doctor who lost their patients, brother of my brother, no man ... etc. 


Antoine Jean-Baptiste Marie Roger de Saint-Exupéry:
Antoine Jean-Baptiste Marie Roger de Saint-Exupéry, born June 29, 1900 in Lyon and disappeared in flight July 31, 1944, Died for France, is a writer, poet and French aviator.

Born into a noble family from the française, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry spent a happy childhood despite the untimely death of his father. Little bright student, he obtained his Bachelor in 1917, however, and after his failure at the Naval Academy, he turned to fine arts and architecture. Became a pilot during his military service in 1921, he was hired in 1926 by the company Latécoère (Aeropostale future) and carries the mail from Toulouse in Senegal before joining South America in 1929. Meanwhile he published, drawing on his experiences as an aviator, his first novels: Southern Mail in 1929 and especially Night Flight in 1931, which is very popular.
 


Barbarella:
Barbarella is a comic book heroine created in 1962 by Jean-Claude Forest. Traveling from planet to planet, Barbarella is a heroine of science fiction comic modeled on Brigitte Bardot. Little fierce, for it embodies the modern woman's creator in the era of sexual liberation. She meets aliens often attractive and experiences the "machine too": the orgasmotron.

Barbarella first appeared in the pages of V Magazine in spring 1962 before releasing an album in 1964, published by Eric Losfeld. This publication caused a scandal and dedicated as the first comic strip Barbarella "adult", then it is only slightly erotic and Tijuana Bibles that existed long before. The album was published by a traditional publisher anticipates, however, the sexual revolution. The line of sensual and imaginative Forest have ensured its success, backed by the film in 1968.

After the movie Barbarella with Eric Losfeld republished in the first and fourth cover two photos from the film.
 


Richard Bach:
Richard David Bach (born June 23, 1936 in Oak Park, Illinois) is an American pilot and writer.

Bach began at the age of 17 years to fly. A year later he began training as a pilot in the U.S. Air Force. He then worked at air shows and as a flight instructor.

In addition to his activities, he published essays on the fly, while he deals with the issue is not only technically, but emotionally and personally.

His first book, Jonathan Livingston Seagull by 1970, with a total circulation of over five million copies worldwide success and is now regarded as a cult book.

One can not but reduce Bach's complete works on this book. In his later novels, he is not only increasingly intensively so, what is the fascination of flying and how it affects him, but is based on flying experience even in a completely different part metaphysical issues about the power of hypnosis on the reality in "The pilot".